Category: Opinion
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BREAKING: Ozark R-6 to fill a controversial replacement now!
OZARK, MO — BREAKING NEWS: This afternoon at 4 p.m., Monday, January 27, 2025, the Ozark R-6 school board will decide who they want to fill a vacancy created when Guy Callaway moved out of the district. Applicants list includes: Mark Burton Bubs Hohulin Patrick Sullivan Brian Rohlman Laura Head Elliot *Rae Ann Wade Jeremiah… Read more
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Is that allowed?
GUEST EDITORIAL At the recent meeting of the Ozark School District Board of Education, a patron signed up to speak to the Board during the public comment period. Protocol requires that patrons must sign up in advance and declare their topics before they are permitted to speak to the Board (in what is almost always… Read more
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A tale of Two Board Members
GUEST EDITORIAL A recent spectacle at the Ozark R-VI School Board meeting created quite a contrast with one just a few months ago. A board member, Guy Callaway, moved out of the school district and, according to the board, didn’t tell anyone. He conveniently announced his vacancy right when it appeared to be too late… Read more
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Truth now: Why the Ozark R-6 Board hates Christina Tonsing
OZARK, MO — The Ozark R-6 School Board hates fellow board member Christina Tonsing. Why? She cuts right through their bureaucratic monotony with bulldog tenacity. Watching the performance live, one realizes Tonsing comes fully loaded, batteries charged, vigorous to keep and hold the rest of her “boardsters” accountable to the public who elected them. Day-um!… Read more
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Truth now: Ozark School Board controversy explodes!
OZARK, MO — The Ozark R-6 Board of Education is once again embroiled in controversy as a dispute over a vacated board seat explodes! Here’s the story… The room grew tense as State Representative Jamie Gragg (R-Ozark) urged the Ozark R-6 School Board to allow voters their rightful option to vote on three open positions… Read more
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(Truth now) Ozark mayor race: Puppet, Bully, or Country?
OZARK, MO — Three men are running for Ozark mayor. They’ve done it before, same threesome. One is a puppet, one is a bully, and one is country. Which of those three words best describes a good mayor for Ozark? Option 1: Go with the current mayor, seeking re-election. Don Currence. He’s the puppet mayor… Read more
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Shocking truth now: Ozark school board sidesteps voters?
OZARK, MO — The Ozark R-6 School Board is dodging voters, hiding under the skirts of School Attorney Celynda L. Brasher, a big school muckety muck from a big snooty wooty lawfirm in St. Louie. Click here for more. Word is that Ms. Brasher is cool with the school sidestepping voters in the upcoming April… Read more
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Truth now: Ozark School Board fears sex policy
OZARK, MO — The Ozark R-VI Board of Education meets tomorrow (Thursday, December 19, 2024) and one board member hopes they talk about sex. Christina Tonsing brought it up in August, and they still haven’t wanted to talk about the idea of defining sex and gender as it relates to Title IX. Urgent reason why… Read more
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Truth now: Why boys can’t ever become girls
GUEST COLUMN Sorting out Sex and GenderThis article is an effort to help see more clearly through the confusion. More recent trend is to make gender personal A more recent trend in gender ideology is to define it as a personal outlook.The value of this approach is that it seems to make gender subject to… Read more
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State Rep now back on his feet in time for session
CLEVER, MO — Burt Whaley, newly elected State Representative in the 138th District, is back on his feet in time for the upcoming legislative session in January. Whaley, now 61, suffered two torn Achillies tendons September 10 while attempting a gymnastic maneuver. Doctors said he would be laid up in a wheelchair for six weeks… Read more
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Truth now: Is Ozark trying to get its fingers in your pie?
WARNING: The City of Ozark, Missouri, is trying to collect new inspection fees for rental properties. Yes, you read that right! Make no mistake, the city is wanting new money… just because. They threw in a bunch of new fees with the annual budget proposal at the Ozark Board of Aldermen meeting Monday, November 18… Read more
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Truth now: My centrist vs. leftie friends’ reactions to Trump
I have friends from all walks of life. They know I’m a right wing Trumper. It’s interesting how my middle-of-the-road and left-leaning friends are reacting to the Trump victory and his calls for action making recent headlines. First of all, they come to me. They bring up the Trump topic. I don’t. I’m not one… Read more
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Truth now: Are Some blue states actually red?
It’s true. Some blue states wear red undergarments. The blue is just a formality smock over the red jump suit. Democrats like to dress some red states up in a blue uniform to look like the blue team is stronger than it is. How do I know? Voter ID requirements. Blue states that don’t require… Read more
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Truth now: Why it doesn’t matter who wins 2024 election
Donald Trump. Kamala Harris. Different approaches. Contrasting outcomes. Will we turn red or blue Nov. 5? It doesn’t matter. Why? Half the population will be upset; half will feel vindicated and triumphant, no matter what. Afterwards, we’ll get back to business as usual, being helpful and friendly, or rude and nasty, or any combination thereof,… Read more
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Public schools are now a big, fat fail!
Nobody wants to go to public school. It’s a feeling of dread for students. They cringe at the site of the big, cheddar rectangle on wheels. The smell of the building upon entry. The slamming of lockers. The rows of desks. The sight of smart boards and chrome books. Eww. Teachers, in particular, don’t wanna… Read more
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Women motorcyclists are so prominent now
SPRINGFIELD, MO — I’m doing deliveries, minding my own business. A black, tinted full-face helmet and ripped tight jeans on a motorcycle at the intersection of cross traffic catches my attention. Wait, is that a… female biker? Yes! Later that same day, another woman, on a “crotch rocket” huddled over and determined to beat traffic,… Read more
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Election 2024 truth: It’s down to one state now
The 2024 Presidential race is down to one state. Uno. Yes, the other 49 make a difference leading up to it, but this one state’s coin toss is going to decide it. Problem is, every pollster and pundit blow this way and that on the outcome, changing with each new happening along the campaign trail.… Read more
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Truth: Cure for Branson’s dying entertainment scene
Branson event planners and organizers are in robot mode (read this next part in your robot reading voice: Pandemic. Can’t recover. Covid. Covid. Pandemic. Pandemic. Blah. Blah. Blah. Aren’t you glad for real publications like your Christian County Trumpet to blast the real reason why entertainment in Branson is tanking? Thought so! Why Branson entertainment… Read more
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So now I called Joe Biden on the phone
I’ll admit, I didn’t think the White House operator would put me through to the president. Not because he’d be off doing presidential things; I figured he wasn’t in. Perhaps at a local ice cream parlor. Napping in the West Wing. On a Delaware beach. Picking out sunglasses. You know, important stuff. “Hello?” his voice… Read more
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Library board erupts in a new conflict
The crowd is on its feet, chanting, pressing against the stage. Beefy, close cropped security guards are on full alert. The announcer blasts, “Are you ready to rock? Get ready for The Ally Echoes!” (He says it like this: Allllyyyy Echooooooooooes!!!) A tsunami of cheers resembles a hurricane force roar, as the Ally Echoes take… Read more